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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue, Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a narrative form anchored in the pain and fear of that ultimate truth of death?
(a) Tragedy
(b) Frustration
(c) Joy
(d) Happiness

2. What is this transcendent source worthy of, according to Campbell?
(a) Respect
(b) Worship
(c) Study
(d) Love

3. What is the spiritual city, and thus center for those who practice the Muslim faith?
(a) The city of their mosque
(b) Babylon
(c) Their city of birth
(d) Mecca

4. Heroes in what tend to bring enlightenment to the community?
(a) Fairy tales
(b) Wars
(c) Scrolls
(d) Family stories

5. All things, moral and ________, beautiful and ________ emerge from this central area.
(a) Just, attractive
(b) Unjust, plain
(c) Immoral, ugly
(d) Right, positive

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the half human/half bull child of an enchanted queen?

2. "______ is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation."

3. What is ultimately glorious in life and in celebrations of love and beauty?

4. The perilous journey [of the hero] was a labor not of attainment, but of ___________."

5. Comedy and tragedy are both aspects of the same experience of _______.

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